Biography for the SEG Presidential Candidacy

Geophysics, Vol. XXII, No.2, April 1957

O.C. Clifford, Jr., candidate for president, received a B.S. degree in 1924
and spent the following year in graduate work, at the University of
Chicago. The summer of 1924 was spent in the employ of the Illinois State
Geological Survey. He was employed by Humphreys Corporation in July, 1925
on one of the first torsion balance parties in the United States. Following
employment in the geophysical department of the Humble Oil and Refining
Company in similar work he joined the geological staff of the Houston Oil
Company in West Texas. During the next five year period he held various
geological and geophysical assignments with the Indian Territory
Illuminating Oil Company in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent areas. His
initial acquaintance with the seismograph was in 1930 as client
representative on the third GSI crew to take the field. Following a short
period with Seismograph Service Corporation in 1933 he was employed as
control geophysicist by Continental Oil Company in 1934. In 1936 he moved
to Houston as district, later regional, geophysicist for the Atlantic
Refining Company. Since 1943 he has been located in Dallas as chief
geophysicist for the same firm.

He has been a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
since 1928 and of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists since 1936. He
is a member of the Dallas Geological Society; the Dallas Geophysical
Society, and served as president in 1949, the year the fist regional
geophysical meeting was held without the cooperation of the local
geological society, and district representative in 1950, 1951, 1952. He has
served on the committees for both Geophysical Case History volumes.
Published articles have appeared in the Bulletin of the AAPG and in
Geophysical Case Histories.

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